Community Service Orders

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many unpaid work appointments have been cancelled since January, broken down by probation area.  [Official Report, 18 November 2007, Vol. 468, c. 3MC.]

David Hanson: Across all probation areas a total of 29,852 work appointments were cancelled between 1 January 2007 and 30 June 2007. This compares with 644,697 appointments which were kept, which is a cancellation rate of 4.6 per cent. The number of unpaid work appointments cancelled in each probation area is set out in the following table.
	
		
			  Area  Appointment cancelled 
			 Avon and Somerset 848 
			 Bedfordshire 313 
			 Cambridgeshire 777 
			 Cheshire 1,737 
			 County Durham 41 
			 Cumbria 483 
			 Derbyshire 62 
			 Devon and Cornwall 311 
			 Dorset 164 
			 Dyfed Powys 21 
			 Essex 747 
			 Gloucestershire 182 
			 Greater Manchester 472 
			 Gwent 884 
			 Hampshire 1,927 
			 Hertfordshire 939 
			 Humberside 107 
			 Kent 1,589 
			 Lancashire 328 
			 Leicestershire and Rutland 489 
			 Lincolnshire 204 
			 London 3,786 
			 Merseyside 768 
			 Norfolk 1,183 
			 North Wales 318 
			 North Yorkshire 203 
			 Northamptonshire 177 
			 Northumbria 237 
			 Nottinghamshire 301 
			 South Wales 121 
			 South Yorkshire 445 
			 Staffordshire 1,346 
			 Suffolk 959 
			 Surrey 181 
			 Sussex 657 
			 Teesside 30 
			 Thames Valley 4,287 
			 Warwickshire 34 
			 West Mercia 1,152 
			 West Midlands 1,090 
			 West Yorkshire 25 
			 Wiltshire 30